Just out of curiousity, does Groovy have an equivalent to Ruby's
flip-flop operator?
i = 0
while i < 10
puts i if (i == 3)...(i == 8)
i += 1
end
[output]
3
4
5
6
7
8
[/output]
The basic structure of the flip-flop is
(<on condition>)..[.](<off condition>)
It represents a temporary variable that is flipped true when the first
condition becomes true and flips false when the second condition becomes
true. Used as above for snipping out ranges of elements in a list based
on start/end conditions.
The non-flip-flop code would look something like this:
i = 0
switch = false
while i < 10
if switch
switch = !(i == 8)
else
switch = (i == 3)
end
puts i if switch
i += 1
end
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